Posts tagged ‘ada lovelace’

Cross-posted in edited form from the Ada Initiative blog. The Ada Initiative, the non-profit Valerie Aurora and I have founded to increase women’s participation in open technology and culture, is fundraising right now with our ...

If you’ve been on The Internet a while, you may have heard of Etsy before. It’s awesome, and because of this awesomeness I was browsing it today. Today’s browsing of awesome has enlightened me to ...

Hollaback, the websites for fighting back against street harassment, are raising money for an iPhone app allowing posting of harassment events and harassers’ images. Find out more and donate at ihollaback.org. (Via Valerie Aurora.) They ...

Remember the Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition that I posted about a while ago? The entries have now closed and voting has opened. If you need some inspiration to vote: If you’re wondering what ...

Check out, and contribute to, Flickr’s Women in Tech group, photos of women in technology speaking at conferences or doing techy things. (Also check out The New Feminine for a little subversion of what “feminine” ...

The Finding Ada blog says an upcoming biopic of Ada Lovelace needs support from people willing to publicise the film, especially inside the United States. There’s been discussion on feminist blogs about the interpretation of ...

Margaret Atwood doesn’t think she writes science fiction. Ursula K Le Guin would like to disagree. (A review of “Year of the Flood”.) sarahtales takes on Uhura, Harriet Potter, and Jo from Little Women and ...